A celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, at American Legion Green Hills Post #57, Bucklin. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Legion Post with the family receiving friends until service time.

Memorials to American Legion Green Hills Post #57 may be left at or mailed to Rhodes Funeral Home, 216 Linn St., Brookfield, Mo. 64628. Online condolences may be left at www.rhodesfh.com.

Dale Thurman was born November 20, 1932, in New Cambria, son of James Ordell and Alice Byrl Meldrum Fields. On January 31, 1993, he was married to Bernice I. Fields in Brookfield.